ISBN 9780552777575

ISBN-10

0552777579

Binding

Paperback

Number of Pages

432 Pages

Language

(English)

Subject

Action and Adventure

What if teleportation was really possible? Englishman Richie Fisher is about to find out ...
Richie and his wife Clara have won a weekend in New York in a newspaper competition. While Clara is off blowing their spending money, Richie wanders aimlessly, chewing on a veggie-burger, ending up in a gift-shop where he finds himself standing in front of an instant transporter machine. It looks nothing like the open-plan teleporter on Captain Kirk?s Starship Enterprise; in fact, it seems more like a glorified microwave oven.
Richie places his burger inside, hits the return key on the linked-up computer - and the burger disappears. But if he can teleport a half-eaten veggie-burger, what else could you do with the machine? For criminals, the possibilities are endless. Who could catch you if you beamed drugs into nostrils a hundred miles away? And how much would illegal immigrants pay to be teleported into the rich host country of their choice?
Richie buys a teleporter and takes it back to England, where the chaos begins ...
About the Author
In 2004, Stephen Clarke, a British journalist, published A Year in the Merde, an almost- true account of what may or may not have happened to him in the ten previous years he'd lived in France. He originally published the novel in an edition of 200 copies, with the intention of selling them through his website, or giving them to his friends. However, following a reading in a Canadian bookshop in Paris and a write-up in a French newspaper, the book became a word-of-mouth bestseller, and was published around the world. To date it has sold over a million copies worldwide.
Originally self-published in 2003, A Short History of the Future is Clarke's first novel. He has since gone on to write three more Merde novels, and three non-fiction books, including the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, 1000 Years of Annoying the French. He lives in Paris, where he divides his time between writing and not writing.